State of Research 2019 October 14, 2019
State of Research 2019 1. Highlights of FY19 2. Investing in Research 3. Innovation 4. Looking Ahead October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019
FY19 Sponsored Project Metrics % Change from Description FY19 previous year 1,059 + 3% Number of Proposals Submitted Dollar Amounts of Proposals Submitted $171 M + 18% Number of Awards 572 < 1% Value of Awards Received $126 M + 2% Total Expenditures $125 M + 5% Total Research Expenditures $88 M + 11%
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FY19 Notable Awards The College of Ed’s Kent McIntosh is co-director of a $32.6 million award — believed to be the largest grant ever received by the UO — from the U.S. Department of Education to support students with disabilities.
FY19 Notable Awards A team of faculty led by the Prevention Science Institute’s Leslie Leve was awarded $12.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to study child growth and development.
FY19 Notable Awards Biologists Karen Guillemin , Judith Eisen , and Brendan Bohannan and biophysicist Raghuveer Parthasarathy received a $7.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the potential health benefits of bacteria.
FY19 Notable Awards Earth scientists James Watkins , Leif Karlstrom and Amanda Thomas , biophysicist Mike Harms , and historian Melissa Graboyes received National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, which are among the most sought-after grants awarded by the agency.
FY19 Notable Awards Other Junior Faculty Awards ! Michelle Byrne : NIMH — “The role of brain activity and connectivity in the association between immune function and depressive symptoms...” ! Ashley Walker : NIA — Large artery stiffness and cerebrovascular dysfunction: Implications for cognitive impairment and neuropathology ! Laura Jeanty: DOE — Early Career Award to fund research in high energy physics Laura Jeanty (above) received a ! Matt Barber : NIGMS — “Adaptive Evolution of Bacteria Department of Energy Early in the Battle for Iron” Career Award and Diana Libuda (below) received an NIH MIRA ! Daniel Grimes : NIAMS — “The Role of Cilia grant in FY19. and Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in Spine Development and Human and Human Disease” ! Julia Widom : NIGMS — “Novel Tools to Investigate Local and Global RNA Conformations in the Splicesome” ! Diana Libuda: NIH — Recombination pathway and partner choices during meiosis.
FY19 Notable Awards UO journalism professor Ed Madison and UO education professor Jenefer Husman received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to address the student achievement gap for underrepresented groups in STEM courses. It allows researchers to pursue a creative, interdisciplinary solution to the problem.
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Published Research Top Read UO News Releases on EurekAlert!: ! Sea pickles are settling into the Pacific NW Kelly Sutherland, OIMB ! UO postdoc solves mystery of isolated Atlantic island birds Martin Stervander, IE2 ! UO team makes artificial atoms that work at room temp Benjamín Alemán, Physics
Media Impact Other Top Performing Stories Based on UO Research & Scholarship: ! "A Signal in Giant Earthquakes That Could Save Lives” — NY Times Diego Melgar, Earth Sciences ! “Imaginary Worlds of Childhood” — Wall Street Journal Marjorie Taylor, Psychology ! “Blind dates for zebrafish reveal ‘social’ cells in brain” — Spectrum Philip Washbourne, Biology
Media Impact Top Read UO Stories on The Conversation: ! The lies we tell on dating apps to find love Dave Markowitz, SOJC ! Kavanaugh's impact on the Supreme Court and the country may not be as profound as predicted Ofer Raban, Law ! Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma' Jennifer Ruef, COE
Investing in Research ! Research equipment ! Research Development Services ! Seed funding for research ! Electronic Research Administration
Research Equipment ! Plasma Focused Ion Beam Instrument (PFIB) — through unique lease and research collaboration agreements with Thermo Fisher Scientific. ! Spinning Disc Confocal Microscope - Murdock Charitable Trust award – 50% UO match ! X-Ray Microscope – Murdock Charitable Trust – 50% UO match
Research Development Aims to support and increase externally-funded research activity at the UO through: Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni ! Proposal Development ! Pivot: External Funding Search Tool ! Internal Award Funding Programs ! Resources, Trainings, and Mara Fields Customized Assistance RDS services are designed to meet the unique needs of faculty across disciplines and career stages. Catherine Jarmin Miller
Research Development Early Career Faculty – Group Travel to Washington, DC A group of junior faculty members meets with Barbara Ransom, a program director at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation in September 2019.
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Seed Funding Program ! Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) ! OHSU/UO joint research projects ! Data Science ! Social-Environmental Resilience ! VPRI Innovation Fund Total investments in seed funding projects will exceed $1 million in FY20.
Research Administration Portal (RAP) Modules Include: ! IRB ! IACUC ! COI ! Grants (pre & post award) ! Animal Operations
Innovation
FY19 Innovation Metrics Description 2018-2019 Change $ 10 M + 10% Licensing Revenue Disclosures/Faculty New Ideas 49 + 14% Science-Based Disclosures 20 + 11% Patent Filings 19 + 12% AAU Licensing Ranking (per $) #5 N/A Total # of Active Startups 26 + 4%
Innovation Seed Fund Awardees ! Ksana Health Inc: Nick Allen: mobile assessment of suicide risk ! Perceptivo, LLC: Terry Takahashi and Avinash Singh: infant hearing assessment ! New Sensor company (TBD): Mike Pluth, Darren Johnson, Michael Haley: sulfide sensing device Under Consideration: ! KeyBiome: Karen Guillemin: screening for intestinal Ksana Health grew out of research microbes and inflammatory by UO’s Nick Allen. response
Oregon Innovation Council Programs ! University Innovation Research Fund o $10 million matching fund for federal research awards ! SBIR/STTR Matching Grant ($2.1M) ! SBIR/STTR application support grant ($150k) ! Commercialization Gap Fund ($5 million) ! High Impact Opportunity Projects RFP ($3M)
Looking Ahead Knight Campus ! Predicted $30M boost in research Presidential Science Initiatives ! Materials Science ! Microbiome ! Data Science ! Neuroscience ! Environmental Resilience Clusters of Excellence and other faculty hiring New partnerships ! OHSU ! Industry: Thermo Fisher
Looking Ahead ! Nov. 21 – Outlook for Federal Funding Congress must act to pass the % Change FY20 budget % Change % Change % from % Change from from FY19 Change Agency FY19 to Agency Change from from FY19 to FY18 to to FY20 ! Budget Control from FY18 FY20 FY19 to FY20 FY20 Senate FY19 Senate to FY19 Caps are no House longer a NSF 4 % 7 % 3 % 4% 7% 3% NSF concern NIH 5 % 5 % 7.6% ! The clock is DoEd 0.3% 6 % 0%??? 5% 7.6% NIH 5% ticking – 2020 approaches 6% IES 0.3% 0%
Looking Ahead Douglas Toomey: $3.1 Leslie Leve and Phil Monte Westerfield/ ZIRC: million grant from the Fisher : $10.1 million NIH $8 million from NIH for USGS for support and grant to address the opioid expansion and improvement of Shake modernization of zebrafish abuse epidemic Alert facilities
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